November 19, 2009
The Multiple Sclerosis Clinic at Toronto's St. Michael's hospital has been treating MS patients for 25 years now, and the prospects for more effective therapies to address both the progress of the disease and their suffering have never looked brighter, says Dr. Paul O'Connor, its director.
"We have made enormous advances in our ability to understand the disease, to diagnose it in early stages and to provide therapies that slow its progress and reduce the frequency of relapses," he says. "We already have at hand five different therapies and I know of at least five more in the pipeline, two of which will be in pill form and will probably be available sometime in the next two years.
"Already we are finding ways to address the disease and have new therapies that, in some patients, seem to improve the quality of life MS can profoundly affect."
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